"Howl", Humberto Ak'abal Translated from Spanish by Michael Bazzett Wearingeul - Dracula Leuchtturm a5 standard @just-turnings.bsky.social <EF elastic> red w/ blue abalone #poetry #humbertoakabal #kichemaya #guatemalanliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia #30inks30days

Humberto Ak’abal (tr. @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social) // Emily Dickinson

I love that scene in the movie where Emily Dickinson comes waltzing into the saloon, slaps some money on the bar, takes a long pull of rye then turns to the card table and shrieks, Tell it Slant –– Motherfuckers, then cackles like a hyena and waltzes back out...

Edward P. Jones is the new guest editor for the O. Henry Prize this year and his salty introduction does not disappoint.

yeah

love caring about commas in the, uh, current landscape

"He who shits on the road meets flies on his way back." – West African proverb

Oh wow, a powerful man being held to account for breaking the law. Wild concept. Imagine we adopted that here in this country.

My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is. Jim Harrison

There is no reason to post or RT the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. None.

Michael Bazzett

Gemini, is a solar eclipse considered lunar murder?

Gemini, can I use goat-cheese as sunscreen?

A new poem I wrote for Michael Bazzett in the Stone Poetry Quarterly. Link to the poem in the comments. "Michael Bazzett wrote nobody fails at meditation like I do, but I misread it nobody fails at medication like I do, & I picture the little pills I take, & maybe they are little clouds"

I so love the poems of Michael Bazzett tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Thank you @narrativemag.bsky.social ! www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...

take a moment and click. it's a marvelous poem...

If every teacher in America refused to go to work —starting next Tuesday— until common sense gun laws were passed, it would happen... It would take a while, and it would get ugly, but it would happen.

this is just heartbreaking: bsky.app/profile/blue...

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

It's a little known fact that 100% of people who confuse causation with correlation end up dying...

I’m still alive. The earth is still alive. Language is still alive. If you can’t find any beauty where you are, you can still make it. Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...

"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world." — Seamus Heaney

Michael Bazzett 💙 “The earth has grown a window to the sky.” from THEY: A FIELD GUIDE (Factory Hollow Press) Day 20 - #SealeyChallenge @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Love the deft music of this little gem by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social up at Poem-a-Day today...

Gold medal in political cartooning? Siegfried Woldhek for the win...

"They can sleep between two coins / stacked neatly on a dresser." read BCP poet Michael Bazzett's "The Dead" in the latest TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW! get Bazzett's THE TEMPLE from BCP for only $10 for a limited time #ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/fcnJcvN

Thrilled to announce that I was selected as the recipient of the 2025-2026 Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship for MARS (Mineral Arts and Residencies). TLR will support a two-week writing residency that I will attend in April 2026. Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for this honor and your support!

These prose poems by @lissatorres.bsky.social are really worth your time (and far more nourishing, I'd wager, than most of what you're scrolling through...) @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social has been really delivering! www.onlypoems.net/poets/elizab...

Delighted to learn that one of my favorite poems by Humberto Ak'abal has just gone live at The Academy of American Poets. 💜 I encourage you to check it out...

Truly incredible news! I'm so proud of Leslie...for writing this stunning, propulsive book; for persisting; for being the consummate artist & role model; & for being the best partner ever... We're feeling very blessed, w/ enormous gratitude to @rrmcq.bsky.social & @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

This is going to be great! And it's all free 💜

I'm looking fwd to this! If you're in/around northeast Iowa, check it out. Free and open to the public. Craft lectures, readings, generative writing workshops. Sept 12-13: www.luther.edu/event/luther...

"Meanwhile, we curl one into the other like foxes in a den in a moment of forgetting º that we will join them." from "The Dead" in the new TLR I love the strange beauty in this poem and we are so lucky to publish it @tahomareview.bsky.social You are brilliant @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social

I'm delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Tahoma Literary Review, (@tahomareview.bsky.social) and cordially invite you to a lovely respite from doomscrolling, should you so desire... 💜 Big thanks to @jessicacuello.bsky.social & the whole team! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

I haven't been home to Cincinnati in 15 years, so I'm doubly excited to read from THE END OF CHILDHOOD at the beautiful Mercantile Library on Friday, August 8. Come say hi! (And huge thanks to @yaliesaweda.bsky.social!)

Would love for you to enjoy this beach read. It’s not too late. Summer’s only half over bud. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement

If you'd like a signed copy of either one of these for the Sealey Challenge, feel free to dm me... 💜

Amazing how in the NY Times a monster like "Severe Hunger" can simply rise out of the desert and "grip" an entire "people," who are then "dying of starvation," almost as if there were no calcuated, years-long, genocidal plan of elimination...

I encourage you to take a minute to read this poem...

The part I like most about this sale is that you can get 15 chaps for $100 or 31 for $175... so you can make Bull City chaps half or ALL of your month!

Over the moon to have a poem in the latest Kenyon Review, a journal I've always admired... Huge gratitude to the editors! 💜

...I thought I'd celebrate my birthday today by sharing a few poems that have come out in the last couple of weeks. Here's one from the latest issue of Swing, with much gratitude to the editors... 💜

Delighted and grateful to have a few poems in The Florida Review! Here's one of them... Big thanks to Poetry Editor, @amico.bsky.social!

Two from the forthcoming book, CLOUDWATCHER.... 💜

Got this volume at Antigua Books in Antigua Guatemala back in March. On perpetual re-read ever since.

"If Today Were Tomorrow. Poems" by Humberto Ak'abal, translated from the Spanish by Michael Bazzett. A lovely recent addition to my poetry book collection. What a gift to be granted an insight into K'iche' Maya culture through verse (and translation).

Time to tell Paramount/CBS where they can go... ...and all best wishes to Stephen Colbert!